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Killian Mangan🇮🇪

'Algorithms have the character of a sticky jelly that seeps into every nook and cranny, and once it hardens, it’s hard to peel off.

Learning to control algorithms will ensure that they do not end up controlling us: our clicks, our tastes, our individual and collective thoughts and imagination. “We want to democratize knowledge of these tools and open them up to the public.”'

english.elpais.com/society/202

EL PAÍS English · Why everything looks the same everywhereClosed online communities and platforms offer us an accessible, aspirational, and increasingly cloned universe. And, following the dictates of ‘likes,’ algorithms erase differences and identities and transform us into passive users. Are we losing our personality?

On top of banning all Recommender Systems on social media, we must change from being powerless users of Tech giant services into having democratic collective control of algorithms on all services we use!

Tech platform co-ops creating apps and services which users can democratically and collectively control 🙌